Thursday, July 11, 2013

Media outtake #2 Goodbye, Just Joking..


In the short story “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin the protagonist, Louise, is informed that her husband has passed in a tragic train accident and becomes so overwhelmed and so lost that she actually starts to find herself.  Once Louise was left to be alone and grieve for her loss, she started to feel something other than sorrow and it was the feeling of freedom. For once she does not have someone telling her what do and how to do it, “she would have no one follow her” as Louise stated in the story. She has been so controlled by her husband for so long that she is finally going to live on her on terms. As Louise looks out the window she notices the world and that there is so much out there for her to do, and see, and now she can, she does not have anyone holding her down. Tragically Louise’s husband did not die, he is very much alive and as he walks through the door in the end of the story which causes Louise to die. The doctor claimed that “she died of overwhelming joy” but in reality she died because as soon as she saw him there was a very rapid decline in joy and probably a little bit of shock contributed to it as well. The connection I made to the story was the song “Cry” by The Veronicas. It is about a women being controlled in her relationship and breaking free. “All my life you’ve had an opinion”, “all you do is hold me down”, “You can't control my life”, “What would you say if I left today with no regrets”. I am sure if that song was in Louise’s era, she would have blast it in her house as she was putting on a nice outfit to go out and be the women wants to be. Or maybe it would have given her inspiration to get out of the relationship before hand. However, at one point or another Louise and the girl in the song are feeling the same way about their relationships and in the end they are both technically out of those relationships. 

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